Judd Apatow's Funny People (Universal) appears to be a disappointment managing just $8M on opening despite solid reviews and an all-star cast. With a likely $22M 3-day target, the movie will finish well behind his 2007 phenom Knocked Up ($30.7M) and more in line with his first directorial effort The 40-Year Old Virgin, which scored about $21.4M back in 2005. If the number for Funny People holds, it will be about half of the $45M or so generated by The Hangover, the year's #1 comedy. Meanwhile the other two new wide releases, Fox's Aliens in the Attic and The Collector from Freestyle, are basically non-starters.

Why are you doing so few movie blogs lately? I used to read you on Fantasy Moguls. I even suffered through visiting the Big Hollywood website to follow your posts. To give you some context, I think Obama tends to be too conservative and I don't think socialism is such a bad thing, so you can imagine my feelings about the website!

It took me a while but I eventually found your website here and was happy to see movie posts. But seeing so few of them is disappointing. Any chance you could go back to your weekly predictions on Friday and roundup on Sunday or Monday?